Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:16, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Hans Reiser said on Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:35:39AM -0700,:
>
> > credits. Actually, I think that requiring that the credits be
> > equally prominent and retain their wording is quite flexible for
> > that purpose already, but please inform me if you see an issue I
> > missed.
>
> I'm *not* a developer.
>
> As a user, I will find it extremely inconvenient to be faced with a
> load of messages *anytime*, boot, or whatever.
>
As a systems administrator, I would have to agree with this,
*especially* when I am trying to debug a problem. Perhaps a -q (or
--quiet, or whatever your poison is) option should be included by
default. Then a request could be made that the quiet option not be
enabled by default by distributions.
Two other ideas that I personally wouldn't mind. Insead of that crappy
marketing stuff that some distributions use (I will refrain from
mentioning names here.) perhaps a progress bar could be shown and we
could read the credits for the various software packages.
My other thought was a welcome, or first use, message of some type.
When I install OpenBSD, the first login includes a welcome message which
lists the software packages included in the base, some tips for where to
start, and it also has a list of developers. Perhaps a welcome message
could be displayed the first time that one of the applications is used
(or it is displayed until the user disables that message).
Tim Donahue
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